gillebryd

Updated: May 12, 2025

So far as the Angus pedigree can be ascertained, it appears that Earl Gillebride died about 1187, leaving two sons, Adam and Gilchrist, who succeeded in turn to that earldom, and Gillebride also left a third son, Gilbert, a fourth, William, and a fifth, Angus, who had a son Gillebert or Gillebryd.

James Gray - Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time: or, The Jarls and The Freskyns

On Magnus' death in 1239, Gillebryd or Gillebride, called in the Icelandic Annals Gibbon, who was either a son or younger brother of Magnus, succeeded Magnus II in the Orkney and Caithness titles and in the Paul share of the Caithness earldom, and it appears from a grant of the advowson of Cortachy on 12th December 1257 that Matilda daughter of Gillebert, "then late Earl of Orkney," married Malise Earl of Stratherne.

James Gray - Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time: or, The Jarls and The Freskyns